The IS sympathizers on social media are a very cunning bunch, like this one:
@LibyaLiberty
how hard is it to recruit jihadis to fight against the gut wrenching murder of innocent children? i see this, & I have to say, not hard.
The same blaming western govts. for creation of jihadis and pretending that Islam is not at fault, while simultaneously play acting the part of "secular liberal". You can't really pin them down, but the undercurrent of providing excuses for the actions of ISIS is a constant, which dumping on everyone else for "creating the conditions" for ISIS. A new version of the "root cause of islamic terrorism".
i can't RT them, because they're just too harrowing, too graphic, too awful. but you should know they exist.
This is with reference to Russian air strikes on ISIS camps in Syria in the past couple of days. No similar mention of the brutality meted out by ISIS to others.
And while on this topic, this quote by Sam Harris is also a good description of the tribe known as "sickulars" in India who have co-opted the word "secularism" to mean their own version of bigotry.
SamHarris wrote:
According to Greenwald and the rest of the regressive Left, one can criticize religion in general, but any special focus on Islam must be motivated by bigotry or “Islamophobia.” And on that assumption, many of these people think it’s fair to slander and demonize anyone who does focus on Islam—even a true Muslim reformer like Maajid Nawaz. Maajid is a former Islamist, who now runs a counter-extremist think tank in the UK. And yet for merely entering into a dialogue with me about the prospects of spreading secular, liberal values in the Muslim world, he was branded a “native informant” and a “porch monkey” by Greenwald’s colleague at The Intercept, Murtaza Hussain, and a “lapdog” by Reza Aslan’s employee, Nathan Lean. These people are simply desperate to shut down dialogue on what is fast becoming the most important political and moral question of our time. Everything they do in this area is dishonest and destructive.
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SamHarris wrote:
On the problems of the multicultural left:
These people are part of what has been termed the “regressive Left” – pseudo-liberals who are so blinded by identity politics that they reliably take the side of a backward mob over one of its victims. Rather than protect individual women, apostates, intellectuals, cartoonists, novelists, and true liberals from the intolerance of religious imbeciles, they protect these theocrats from criticism.
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